User`s guide

MyPersonalDiet User’s Guide 20
Figure 15:The Search Food window allows you to search the food database for a specific keyword.
Searching by one word can return too many items (210 in the previous example) To
perform a more effective search, enter several words, and only items containing all words
will be shown. What’s more, prefix a word with an hyphen (–) to exclude food items that
contain that word. In Figure 16, the search returned entries that contains both milk and
lowfat, but not cheese (bringing the number of entries down to a more manageable eight).
Figure 16:An enhanced search returns fewer and more accurate results.
You can save one or more food items as a meal, and use that meal later on to expedite
data entry. Figure 11 shows the New Meal window with two food items. Choose the
Meal button , select Add and enter the meal’s name to save the food items under that
Combining
food items
into meals.
Use this scroll bar to see
the full item names.
To select an item, tap on
it and tap OK to close the
window. You can also
double-tap an item to
select it and close the
window at once.